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German 'anti-Islam' protests: nine things you need to know

Nearly 17,000 people attend Dresden's
latest march against "Islamisation of the west" - is the movement driven
by the middle classes, as claimed - or are there more sinister forces
at work?

Can Germany escape the shadow of its history?

A protest in Dresden against "Islamisation" initially attracted 200 people, but has swelled to over 17,000 in a matter of weeks.

The
group leading the protests has spawned new branches in other German
cities, capitalising on a modern European concern over immigration.
But is this a genuine expression of the national mood,
or is Germany playing with fire? We take a closer look at the marches
and the people who are really behind them.

Is there a far-right influence?

The
protests are organised by a group called Patriotic Europeans Against
the Islamisation of the West (Pegida), which gains respectability by its
links to freedom demonstrations.

But there are hundreds of right-wing extremists in
Pegida's midst - along with two established football hooligan groups,
known to German police as Faust des Ostens (Fist of the East) and
Hooligans Elbflorenz (Florence of the Elbe Hooligans), according to
Germany's federal office for the protection of the constitution.

I'm just a small cog in a much bigger wheelPegida's leader

Marches are also attended by members of the National
Democratic Party - a far right party that claims to be Germany's "only
significant patriotic force".

Who is in charge?

Lutz Bachmann, a 41-year-old butcher's son, who is the head of Pegida and runs a PR agency.

At
a recent rally in his home town of Dresden, he said that while older
Germans could not afford "a single slice" of Stollen, German Christmas
cake, asylum seekers were enjoying affluent homes.

But he told the Süddeutsche Zeitung: "I'm just a small cog in a much bigger wheel."

Pegida's organisers have been branded "Nazis in
pinstripes" by the centre-left Social Democrats in the ruling coalition
with Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats.

What do the protesters say?

At Pegida's latest march, protesters were heard chanting
Wir sind das Volk - which means "we are the people" - a rallying call
heard in Dresden in the weeks leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall 25
years ago.

There's no place for incitement and lies about people who come to us from other countriesChancellor Angela Merkel

Mr Bachmann led the crowds waving German flags or draped in the national colours.

One
banner at the latest march proclaimed "No sharia law in Europe!",
although most people attending appeared to be non-radical members of the
middle class, protesting against asylum seekers and high levels of
immigration.

How fast has Pegida grown?

The marches started about two months ago, when a few hundred people gathered to demonstrate against radical Islam.

Since
then, more and more have joined the demonstrations, which are now
being held weekly and which last week reached 17,000 people, partly
through growth on social media sites such as Facebook.

Pegida has spread beyond Dresden to Bonn, Darmstadt and Leipzig.

What is the government doing?

Immigration has become a difficult topic in Germany following a surge in asylum seekers from Iraq and Syria.

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned Germans against being exploited by extremists.

There is a visible rise in xenophobic crime countrywideGerman police chief

"Everyone [who attends] needs to be careful that they
are not taken advantage of by the people who organise such events," she
said in Berlin this week.

"There's freedom of assembly in
Germany, but there's no place for incitement and lies about people who
come to us from other countries.''

Is there really an immigration problem?

Germany expects 200,000 asylum claims in 2014 - up from
127,000 in 2013 - and has more asylum seekers than any other country in
the EU.

According to a poll for Spiegel by the TNS institute,
almost two-thirds of Germans believe Mrs Merkel's government is doing
too little to meet concerns about asylum seekers and immigration.

About a third - 34 per cent - believe Germany is undergoing a process of "Islamisation".

Is that the only thing people are protesting against?

In the western city of Cologne, about 15,000 people
attended a demonstration on Sunday to promote tolerance and
open-mindedness, under the motto: "You are Cologne - no Nazis here."

Its participants held banners reading "Act against the right" and "Nazis, no thanks".

Monday's march was met by a counter-protest comprising about 5,000 people.

Is it getting worse?

As well as Pegida extending its influence to other
German cities, the Dresden marches have inspired copycat protests in
places like Dusseldorf, which has a much bigger immigrant population of
about 4m Muslims.

German police chief Holger Muench has warned against the
spread of extremism, telling Welt am Sonntag "there is a visible rise
in xenophobic crime countrywide".

Both anti-Muslim and
anti-Semitic sentiment has grown this year, with several attacks on Jews
and football hooligans joining forces with right-wingers to fight
Salafist Muslims.

Is there a solution?

The Pegida marches present a dilemma to politicians keen
to uncouple strong neo-Nazi elements believed to be at the heart of
protests from the bulk of protesters, who are non-radical voters with
grievances against the government.

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